Overview

This unit introduces students to graphic narratives, focusing on familiar examples such as comic books, graphic novels, and Manga. It will look at this art form in its many formats and applications, and provide students with an opportunity to create graphic narratives. It will examine comic book language and how comic book idioms have been remediated as part of the universal language of convergence culture. This unit’s focus on graphic narratives will provide students with the historical perspective and textual analysis skills necessary to navigate today’s media landscape, and anticipate those of tomorrow

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate critical understanding of theoretical and creative approaches to graphic narratives
  • Synthesise complex ideas using graphic communications techniques and by creating graphic narratives
  • Analyse canonical and popular examples of graphic narratives

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Various
3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Analysis SheetsIndividual 30% 1,2,3 
EssayIndividual 30% 1,2,3 
Graphic NarrativesIndividual 40% 1,2,3 

Content

  • Medium Specificity
  • Genre
  • Alternative Comics
  • The Comics Industry
  • Authorship
  • Audience Research
  • Reception
  • International Comics
  • Manga
  • Representation
  • Comics and Conflict
  • Comics in the Digital Age

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.